Phillip and Tiffany Cross Push Back on Decrease in D.C. Crime Polls, Brad Todd Shoots Back: ‘It’s CNN’s Own Reporting’

Todd: “Hang on. We need to bring some numbers into this. Washington, D.C. has a net loss of 500 police officers since 2020. They are undermanned. The D.C. police union supports what Donald Trump is doing. They think it‘s working. We‘ve gone 13 days without a murder in Washington, D.C. in August, the heat of the summer. That never happens. This is going to be the lowest number of murders in August on record.”
CROSS: “That actually is not true.”
PHILLIP: “Now we’re changing the — we‘re changing the goalposts.”
CROSS: “And that‘s a lie.”
PHILLIP: “The lowest number of murders in August. But just earlier this year, in February, 16 days without any murders.”
Todd: “Oh, it has happened before. It doesn‘t tend to happen in August. It doesn‘t tend to happen in the summer.”
PHILLIP: “Well, I think that’s a completely arbitrary.”
Todd: “No, it‘s not. The heat — “
AIDALA: “It‘s not.”
Todd: “Everyone knows summer is a high crimes — high crime time.”
PHILLIP: “Hold on a second. I just think it is pretty arbitrary to just say, well, in August — “
Todd: “Because CNN‘s own reporting — okay, let‘s go. Let‘s go to more stats. CNN‘s — “
PHILLIP: “Okay. It happened earlier this year. So it’s not unprecedented — “
Todd: “CNN‘s own reporting says crime is down 19% from the weeks before.”
PHILLIP: “I didn‘t say that it wasn‘t down.”
Todd: “So is it working? Is it helping?”
CROSS: “No, it is not working!”
Todd: “The police say it helps.”
PHILLIP: “I didn’t say that it wasn’t down. I’m just saying, again, that this has never happened before is not the case.”
CROSS: “First of all, let me just tell you a lot of people do not care what the police think or what the police union think. They themselves are quite problematic. And if you want to talk about CNN‘s own reporting, we should look to Daniel Dale, who did an amazing job, an amazing job of real-time fact-checking the parade of lies Donald Trump purported in his press conference today.”